Updated Lying Workshop Launches Sept. 1

Aug. 25, 2009 - PRLog -- The popular Foster Parent College Advanced Parenting Workshop on Lying has been updated, with more interactivity and some new material. Enrollment is open for the three-week workshop which begins September 1.

Lying is a frustrating behavior for resource parents to deal with. In this workshop, Dr. Richard Delaney identifies six possible causes for lying and then works with viewers to understand the source of lying in a 16-year-old boy. Then Dr. Delaney and his teaching assistants guide viewers through the process of working together to develop an action plan for the boy’s foster parents, with concrete steps for coping with and curbing the boy’s chronic lying.

Dr. Rick Delaney is the clinical director of a community-based residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. For many years, Dr. Delaney has served as a consultant to Casey Family Programs and other foster care and adoption agencies across the county. He is the author or co-author of several books in the area of foster care and adoption, including Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning, and Magic Bullets in Attachment Theory and Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Troubled Foster and Adopted Children.  He is the principal investigator of Foster Parent College, and helped to develop an online training series for Portland State University’s adoption-competent mental health certificate program.  

The workshops bring together parents from all over the world to work together to solve a challenging issue they all struggle with. After the initial introductions and videos, workshop participants study a case and through interactive exercises and discussion boards develop an action plan for the case family.

Advanced Parenting Workshops begin the first Tuesday of each month and span a three-week period. Completing the class yields 6 training hours and costs $30. FPC training units are accepted by over 1,000 agencies and organizations throughout the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

For more information or to enroll, visit fosterparentcollege.com or call 800-777-6636.

Foster Parent College is a division of Northwest Media, Inc. of Eugene, OR. Northwest Media also produces Vstreet.com, a comprehensive life skills website for youth in transition, and SocialLearning.com, an online store with over 1,300 products for the social services field.

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Foster Parent College provides affordable, research-based, interactive, online classes for foster, adoptive and kinship caregivers. Courses are taught by psychologists, pediatricians, behavior specialists and educators and are proven effective.